Patterns of theta activity in limbic anxiety circuit preceding exploratory behavior in approach-avoidance conflict

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Jacinto, Luis R ^a,b   Cerqueira, João J ^a,b   Sousa, Nuno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Local field potentials; Prefrontal cortex; Stress; Ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CHRONIC UNPREDICTABLE STRESS; CONFLICT; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; THETA RHYTHM; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 84988603400     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00171     Document Type: Article

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